“Having once thought that most of his parishioners shared the life-changing encounter with blazing beauty, it was all the harder for him to see them day after day preoccupied with petty jealousies, avarice, and lusts, and to endure their sullen… — George M. Marsden Copy Share Image
“Regeneration, in other words, changed the whole person by changing the love at the heart of the person's being.” — George M. Marsden Copy Share Image
“Having once thought that most of his parishioners shared the life-changing encounter with blazing beauty, it was all the harder for him to see… — George M. Marsden Copy Share Image
“True saints," Edwards observed with typical God-centeredness, are "inexpressibly pleased and delighted with ... the things of God." Hypocrites, by contrast, revel in themselves.… — George M. Marsden Copy Share Image
“Edwards followed what he believed the proper procedure whenever contemplating a move: he agreed to convene an ad hoc council of clergy that would… — George M. Marsden Copy Share Image
